[rescue] DECstation 5000

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jul 16 13:59:57 CDT 2002


On July 16, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> Funniest thing is that NT had 0 Intel code on the beginning, now it has 0
> MIPS code. Then again I don;t know why any company would go to bed with
> M$. here are a few companies that moved to NT, because it somehow made
> sense at the time. And they are ALL gone
> 
> DEC -> gone
> Intergraph -> gone
> SGI -> almost gone

  SGI is almost gone?  Interesting.  To me, they don't look any more
gone than anyone else in this industry.

> NT is like the kiss of death.... yet people still fall for it.

  You mean "suits" fall for it.

   -Dave

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